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Subject: Re: Xen 3.0.4 - Ballooning
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:29:52 +0100
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Hi Andrew,

Thank you a lot for your answer. I will try to play with this a little.

Best regards.


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S=C3=A9bastien Riccio
SwissCenter / OpenBusiness SA
sr@openbusiness.com



Andrew D. Ball a =C3=A9crit :
> Not such a dumb question.  As far as I know, memory ballooning is only
> done from the control partition (dom0) nowadays, explicitly.
>
> It would be nice for something inside of a domU's kernel or userspace t=
o
> watch=20
> some metric and then ask nicely for more memory if needed.  Paravirtual
> drivers
> can do this for sure, but I haven't poked around enough to know which
> available
> ones do and how to trigger it.
>
> Peace.
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 11:21 +0100, S=C3=A9bastien RICCIO wrote:
>  =20
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe it's a dumb question, but I'm actually trying to understand how=20
>> the memory allocation works within Xen.
>>
>> I try to give 128MB to a domU and see if it increases for example when=
 I=20
>> "nano" a 500mb file, but the process
>> just get killed when it reachs the 128MB memory limit.
>>
>> How do I configure the guests so they can ask for more memory until a=20
>> limit is reached ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>>
>> Best regards
>>    =20
>
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